Federal authorities are boosting security in the United States after intelligence agencies detected a credible threat to Western interests overseas and the government began closing diplomatic posts in some Muslim countries, according to homeland security officials.

The Department of Homeland Security is increasing security measures at airports, train stations and other transportation hubs, and expanding scrutiny of visitors coming into the United States, two officials told ABC News.

The FBI, meanwhile, is "working sources" and taking other "logical steps" to monitor any potential threat, an FBI official said.

The officials said the latest measures are being taken “out of an abundance of caution,” and the recent intelligence contains “no nexus” to the U.S. homeland. However, there is an “air of mystery” and “uncertainty of exactly what the target is,” one official said

No, no, no there will be none of THAT. Meanwhile, in lieu of warm milk or ambien, here's something to make us all sleep better: Andrew Malcolm ✔ @AHMalcolm W/Obama bday partying in MD, his natl security grp met on terror threats, unlike 9/10/12. Chaired by Susan 'It Was All About a Video' Rice8:31 PM - 3 Aug 2013

The day that DHS starts recording all the departures of visa holders from the US, I will take note of their achievement. Until then it is all BS and a jobs program.
Most of the security threats we face came in on a valid visa and overstayed. Round em up.

Am wondering if military and Leo have been asked to wear uniforms and become very public. Does DHS wear t shirts. Remember seeing two soldiers in fatigues and a guy in T shirt with letter wearing combat boots talking to them in Walmart this morning. Didn’t think much of it at the time. Several National Guard on Road this week but that’s normal for summer time. Training camp just up the interstate

I understand your concerns. I share them. I do think that the blowback from Obama handing out shoulder fired missiles to jihadis in ME is about to come to fruition. The politicos that have done such a stupid thing need to be tried for treason.

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posted on 08/03/2013 7:59:49 PM PDT
by penelopesire
(TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)

Maybe the US State Department ought to stop giving ragheads visas and send the half wit apparatchiks who stand around 90% of the the other Federal agency’s doing nothing but collecting a paycheck after the muzzies that are here illegally and deport them.

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posted on 08/03/2013 8:26:26 PM PDT
by Rome2000
(THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)

No thread that I could find on this article, and I haven't seen this info in any other article

Excerpt:

U.S. officials are increasingly concerned about Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and its master bomb maker, Ibrahim al Asiri, who allegedly built the underwear bomb used to nearly blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009....

However, Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole has said that al Asiri developed a new type of explosive that might be able to slip through security.

"All of our explosive detection equipment, which screens over a million checked bags every day just in the U.S., wasn't calibrated to detect that," Pistole said.

But John Pistone, head of America’s Transportation Security Administration, revealed at a global security summit that the terrorist’s latest devices were “highly sophisticated and much harder to detect”.

According to Mr Pistone, al-Asiri’s latest attempt to blow up a commercial US jet last year involved an explosive “that we had never seen before, and that no machine or dog had been calibrated or trained to detect”.

He added that al-Asiri, a Saudi believed to be in Yemen, has also developed a “double initiation system” for his bombs, using two detonators instead of one.

Fires are still ongoing but won’t get here, too many miles away. The smoke, OTOH, is not nice at all. Burns the eyes, lungs, throat - day and night.

But - everything is temporary in this world.

Hopefully no more nutcases will start fires around here for a while, though. (The big ones were lightning apparently, but around our local valley there have been a lot of arson fires and idiot started by accident fires.)

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posted on 08/03/2013 10:52:23 PM PDT
by little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)

"The suicide bomber dispatched by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda last month to blow up a United States-bound airliner was actually an intelligence agent for Saudi Arabia who infiltrated the terrorist group and volunteered for the mission, American and foreign officials said Tuesday. " Source

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posted on 08/03/2013 11:07:37 PM PDT
by thouworm
(Remember: The only thing that stands between us and tyranny is the Constitution. [Mark Levin])

Meanwhile, according to news accounts, the “team” is in place waiting to act. Seems to me monitoring the borders now is useless if the info is accurate, what are we monitoring at the borders if the “team” is already in place.

Yes!...but that’s not going to happen...the Saudi’s have the edge in visas..like an open door policy with the administration....with “the flow of oil and price as their strong arm tactic when necessary......which is also why they are supporting EPA (backdoor) and working hard to stop the “fracking” in our country....needless saying seen as a threat to their upper hand.

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